American Lit Wiki

This wiki is being created by the students in American Literature at Connersville High School. We are reading three works outside of class as part of a semester-long project. After each book is finished, we will contribute to this wiki.

  • In the first round, we summarized and analyzed the plot of the fiction we read.
  • In the second round, we will analyze the impact of the setting on the plot, on character development, and on the theme.
  • In the third round, we will focus on character development in the works.

The final wiki will represent the analysis of the entire class, with each person commenting on a particular focus of three different books. For the semester project, each student will write a paper comparing and contrasting the three books read. This wiki will serve as a resource for that paper.

We are reading books by these authors:

Louisa May Alcott
Frederick Douglass
Barbara Kingsolver
Michael Shaara
Sherwood Anderson
Theodore Dreiser
Sinclair Lewis
Betty Smith
Maya Angelou
F. Scott Fitzgerald
H. P. Lovecraft
John Steinbeck
Neal Bascomb
William Gibson
Bobbi Ann Mason
Gene Stratton-Porter
H. G. Bissinger
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Toni Morrison
Amy Tan
Erma Bombeck
Joseph Heller
Mukherjee
James Thurber
Ray Bradbury
Ernest Hemingway
Tim O'Brien
Dalton Trumbo
Bill Bryson
Zora Neale Hurston
Jodi Picoult
Mark Twain
Phillip Caputo
Harriet Jacobs
Edgar Allan Poe
Booker T. Washington
Pat Conroy
Sue Monk Kidd
Pete Rose
Alice Walker
Stephen Crane
Stephen King
William Saroyan
Tennessee Williams